'Deep' in the Bible

So the Lord God caused a deep sleep to come over the man, and he slept. God took one of his ribs and closed the flesh at that place.

As the sun was setting, a deep sleep fell on Abram, and suddenly great terror and darkness descended on him.

Then they said to each other, “Obviously, we are being punished for what we did to our brother. We saw his deep distress when he pleaded with us, but we would not listen. That is why this trouble has come to us.”

by the God of your father who helps you,and by the Almighty who blesses youwith blessings of the heavens above,blessings of the deep that lies below,and blessings of the breasts and the womb.

For the Lord your God is bringing you into a good land, a land with streams of water, springs, and deep water sources, flowing in both valleys and hills;

So David took the spear and the water jug by Saul’s head, and they went their way. No one saw them, no one knew, and no one woke up; they all remained asleep because a deep sleep from the Lord came over them.

He reached down from heavenand took hold of me;He pulled me out of deep waters.

The portico in front of the temple sanctuary was 30 feet long extending across the temple’s width, and 15 feet deep in front of the temple.

Among unsettling thoughts from visions in the night,when deep sleep descends on men,

In a dream, a vision in the night,when deep sleep falls on peopleas they slumber on their beds,

There is no darkness, no deep darkness,where evildoers can hide themselves.

He leaves a shining wake behind him;one would think the deep had gray hair!

He reached down from heavenand took hold of me;He pulled me out of deep waters.

Deep calls to deep in the roar of Your waterfalls;all Your breakers and Your billows have swept over me.

Surely You desire integrity in the inner self,and You teach me wisdom deep within.

I have sunk in deep mud, and there is no footing;I have come into deep waters,and a flood sweeps over me.

Rescue me from the miry mud; don’t let me sink.Let me be rescued from those who hate meand from the deep waters.

Don’t let the floodwaters sweep over meor the deep swallow me up;don’t let the Pit close its mouth over me.

You covered it with the deepas if it were a garment;the waters stood above the mountains.

They saw the Lord’s works,His wonderful works in the deep.

Reach down from heaven;rescue me from deep water, and set me freefrom the grasp of foreigners

The words of a man’s mouth are deep waters,a flowing river, a fountain of wisdom.

Laziness induces deep sleep,and a lazy person will go hungry.

Counsel in a man’s heart is deep water;but a man of understanding draws it out.

Whoever curses his father or mother—his lamp will go out in deep darkness.

The mouth of the forbidden woman is a deep pit;a man cursed by the Lord will fall into it.

For a prostitute is a deep pit,and a stranger is a narrow well;

As the heaven is high and the earth is deep,so the hearts of kings cannot be investigated.

What exists is beyond reach and very deep. Who can discover it?

On that day the deaf will hearthe words of a document,and out of a deep darknessthe eyes of the blind will see.

Indeed! Topheth has been readyfor the king for a long time now.Its funeral pyre is deep and wide,with plenty of fire and wood.The breath of the Lord, like a torrent of brimstone,kindles it.

Wasn’t it You who dried up the sea,the waters of the great deep,who made the sea-bed into a roadfor the redeemed to pass over?

“Enlarge the site of your tent,and let your tent curtains be stretched out;do not hold back;lengthen your ropes,and drive your pegs deep.

This is what the Lord God says:You will drink your sister’s cup,which is deep and wide.You will be an object of ridicule and scorn,for it holds so much.

This is what the Lord God says: “Because the Philistines acted in vengeance and took revenge with deep contempt, destroying because of their ancient hatred,

For this is what the Lord God says: “When I make you a ruined city like other deserted cities, when I raise up the deep against you so that the mighty waters cover you,

They shave their heads because of youand wrap themselves in sackcloth.They weep over youwith deep anguish and bitter mourning.

“This is what the Lord God says: I caused grieving on the day the cedar went down to Sheol. I closed off the underground deep because of it: I held back the rivers of the deep, and its abundant waters were restrained. I made Lebanon mourn on account of it, and all the trees of the field fainted because of it.

Then he came to the gate that faced east and climbed its steps. He measured the threshold of the gate; it was 10 feet deep—the first threshold was 10 feet deep.

Each recess was about 10 feet long and 10 feet deep, and there was a space of 8¾ feet between the recesses. The inner threshold of the gate on the temple side next to the gate’s portico was about 10 feet.

The portico was 35 feet across and 21 feet deep, and 10 steps led up to it. There were pillars by the pilasters, one on each side.

“These are the measurements of the altar in units of length (each unit being the standard length plus three inches): the gutter is 21 inches deep and 21 inches wide, with a rim of nine inches around its edge. This is the base of the altar.

Again he measured off a third of a mile, and it was a river that I could not cross on foot. For the water had risen; it was deep enough to swim in, a river that could not be crossed on foot.

He reveals the deep and hidden things;He knows what is in the darkness,and light dwells with Him.

While he was speaking to me, I fell into a deep sleep, with my face to the ground. Then he touched me, made me stand up,

I heard the words he said, and when I heard them I fell into a deep sleep, with my face to the ground.

The Lord God showed me this: The Lord God was calling for a judgment by fire. It consumed the great deep and devoured the land.

The sailors were afraid, and each cried out to his god. They threw the ship’s cargo into the sea to lighten the load. Meanwhile, Jonah had gone down to the lowest part of the vessel and had stretched out and fallen into a deep sleep.

The mountains see You and shudder;a downpour of water sweeps by.The deep roars with its voiceand lifts its waves high.

But if your eye is bad, your whole body will be full of darkness. So if the light within you is darkness—how deep is that darkness!

Others fell on rocky ground, where there wasn’t much soil, and they sprang up quickly since the soil wasn’t deep.

Other seed fell on rocky ground where it didn’t have much soil, and it sprang up right away, since it didn’t have deep soil.

When He had finished speaking, He said to Simon, “Put out into deep water and let down your nets for a catch.”

He is like a man building a house, who dug deep and laid the foundation on the rock. When the flood came, the river crashed against that house and couldn’t shake it, because it was well built.

Peter and those with him were in a deep sleep, and when they became fully awake, they saw His glory and the two men who were standing with Him.

“Sir,” said the woman, “You don’t even have a bucket, and the well is deep. So where do You get this ‘living water’?

The one who believes in Me, as the Scripture has said, will have streams of living water flow from deep within him.”

and a young man named Eutychus was sitting on a window sill and sank into a deep sleep as Paul kept on speaking. When he was overcome by sleep, he fell down from the third story and was picked up dead.

They took a sounding and found it to be 120 feet deep; when they had sailed a little farther and sounded again, they found it to be 90 feet deep.

Now God has revealed these things to us by the Spirit, for the Spirit searches everything, even the depths of God.

and not only by his arrival, but also by the comfort he received from you. He told us about your deep longing, your sorrow, and your zeal for me, so that I rejoiced even more.

For consider how much diligence this very thing—this grieving as God wills—has produced in you: what a desire to clear yourselves, what indignation, what fear, what deep longing, what zeal, what justice! In every way you showed yourselves to be pure in this matter.

During a severe testing by affliction, their abundance of joy and their deep poverty overflowed into the wealth of their generosity.

And they will have deep affection for you in their prayers on your behalf because of the surpassing grace of God in you.

I say to the rest of you in Thyatira, who do not hold this teaching, who haven’t known the deep things of Satan—as they say—I do not put any other burden on you.